Appearing on Fox News Channel’s Life, Liberty and Levin Sunday night, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell hammered the leftist media for “aiding and abetting” in the “cover-up” of the devastating impact of radical left-wing policies. Specifically, Bozell detailed the horrific case of a 14-year-old girl being allegedly raped by a male student in a Loudoun County, Virginia high school following the far-left school board implementing a highly controversial transgender bathroom policy.
“Brent Bozell, the Loudoun County School District is the ground zero for the war against parents and taxpayers by the teachers unions, the educational bureaucracy, school boards, and the Biden administration through the Justice Department,” host Mark Levin explained as the segment began. He asked the MRC founder: “And the American media, corrupt as it is, seems to be taking the side of the totalitarians against the people. What do you know about this?”
Bozell declared: “Well, it’s a story of two cover-ups, and they’re equally horrific. One, a cover-up of the radical left, of their policies and the consequences. And the second one, the media aiding and abetting in this cover-up.”
While going through the disturbing timeline that connected the dots between the Democrat-controlled Loudoun County School Board passing it’s transgender bathroom policy over the vociferous opposition of many concerned parents to the alleged sexual assault of a young girl in a high school restroom by a male student, Bozell called out the role of the corrupt press:
Now, the media, in turn, attacked the pro-family movement everywhere we went and they just – they said to America, these are carnival barking troglodytes. They said this has never happened before. Everything they’re saying is just carnival barking, you have to ignore them. This is the way of a woke world, of a new world that we’re introducing. That’s your backdrop.
Moments later, Bozell denounced the stunning media silence on the story: “What’s the media coverage of the rape? Nothing. What’s the media coverage of the cover-up of the rape to the parents in Loudoun County? Nothing.” He demanded: “Where are the media asking the question, what happened? Does this man’s daughter – has she been raped in this school? Why isn’t anyone talking about this? Why is the school board denying this? No media coverage.”
Naming and shaming the news outlets that refused to cover the terrible consequences of a radical left-wing social agenda, Bozell proclaimed: “What’s the media coverage of this explosive story? Nothing on the networks. Not ABC, NBC, CBS, those 24-hour news network like MSNBC and CNN. Only Fox and The Washington Times and The Washington Post.”
He condemned the school board for having “covered it up” by initially refusing to tell parents what happened and then added: “We know the parents were never told and we know the media deliberately participated in this cover up.”
Levin concluded: “You know, I’d say that is unbelievable, Brent, but these days, the media are so corrupt, and so in the back pocket with the American Marxist movement, it’s unbelievable.”
Here is a full transcript of both parts of the October 17 appearance:
8:17 PM ET
MARK LEVIN: Welcome back, America. Brent Bozell is the founder and President of the Media Research Center. And by the way, the author of a brand new book that’s coming out in December, Stops Along the Way. It’s a fantastic book, I’ve read it already, and we’ll talk more about that later.
Brent Bozell, the Loudoun County School District is the ground zero for the war against parents and taxpayers by the teachers unions, the educational bureaucracy, school boards, and the Biden administration through the Justice Department. And the American media, corrupt as it is, seems to be taking the side of the totalitarians against the people. What do you know about this?
BRENT BOZELL: Well, it’s a story of two cover-ups, and they’re equally horrific. One, a cover-up of the radical left, of their policies and the consequences. And the second one, the media aiding and abetting in this cover-up. Let me walk you through this, Mark, if I can.
We’ve seen for the last two to three years this raging debate about transgender bathrooms. The overwhelming majority of Americans are opposed to this, but then the radical left said they wanted to insert it in the public school system, where boys could go into girls’ bathrooms and just say that they’re transgender.
Now, the overwhelming majority of parents against this had three things going for them. One, morality. This is immoral. B, biology, this is not biological. But C, common sense, because everyone said on our side that this was going to lead to a rape. And when it did, we were going to be horrified.
Now, the media, in turn, attacked the pro-family movement everywhere we went and they just – they said to America, these are carnival barking troglodytes. They said this has never happened before. Everything they’re saying is just carnival barking, you have to ignore them. This is the way of a woke world, of a new world that we’re introducing. That’s your backdrop.
January 12th, a newly elected Democrat school board in Loudoun County announces that they’re going to have a new policy allowing transgender children to go into the public school bathrooms with girls. It’s going to happen in the next semester.
Well, it doesn’t wait until the next semester, May 28th, a boy puts on a dress, goes into the girls’ bathroom, gets a 14-year-old, ninth grade, little child and rapes her. Not only rapes her, Mark. The father doesn’t talk about this, but we have to talk about this. He sodomizes her. In the police report, it’s not just sodomy, it’s forced fellatio that he makes this girl – poor girl – go through.
The parents are contacted. The father is contacted and told that there is some incident that he needs to come into. He isn’t told anything about this. Only when he arrives does he learn that his little girl has been raped. He goes ballistic in there, starts yelling. He is escorted out of the school by the security guards.
Now what does the school do in talking to the parents about this and letting the parents know about a rape? Nothing. Nothing is told to the parents.
Instead, a notice goes to the parents about the father and what the father had done. It’s an unbelievable cover-up of the consequences of what the school board had thrust down the throats of the parents in Loudoun County.
What’s the media coverage of the rape? Nothing. What’s the media coverage of the cover-up of the rape to the parents in Loudoun County? Nothing.
Go further. June 22nd. There’s a hearing now to expand this policy, not to stop it, but to expand it to allow quote-unquote, “gender expression.” This means anybody can go into the girls’ room, don’t have to even say you’re transgender, just want to express yourself, i.e. wear a skirt.
They actually push this new policy knowing that a rape had occurred. The father attends this. The father tries to speak out. He’s muzzled by not just the school board that denies this, but also this transgender army that is brought into the school board hearing. A tussle breaks out with the police, you’ve seen the footage, and he is tackled, he is arrested, and he is sent to jail.
Now, the media know all this stuff is going on. Where are the media asking the question, what happened? Does this man’s daughter – has she been raped in this school? Why isn’t anyone talking about this? Why is the school board denying this? No media coverage.
October 6th. That same boy is arrested again, in another school, this time in a classroom with a sexual charge against another girl. What’s the media coverage? Mark, no media coverage of this.
On Tuesday, The Daily Wire comes out with an expose. They connect all the dots in a massive story, telling the story the media didn’t want you to know. And for God’s sakes, the school board didn’t want parents to know about the cover-up. What’s the media coverage of this explosive story? Nothing on the networks. Not ABC, NBC, CBS, those 24-hour news network like MSNBC and CNN. Only Fox and The Washington Times and The Washington Post.
But wait a minute, it wasn’t just The Washington Post. It was the washingtonpost.com, the paper didn’t even report it, the paper that covers this. And then when they did the dot-com, they didn’t talk about the rape, it was about the father.
On Wednesday, the school board comes out with its report. It just washes its hand on the thing. It says, we knew about it and the school says, within minutes, we alerted the police.
So we know they alerted the police to a crime. We know they covered it up. We know the parents were never told and we know the media deliberately participated in this cover up.
LEVIN: You know, I’d say that is unbelievable, Brent, but these days, the media are so corrupt, and so in the back pocket with the American Marxist movement, it’s unbelievable.
When we come back, I want to pursue with you what the Attorney General of the United States and the Biden administration want to do to our school systems, our school boards, targeting our parents and taxpayers. We’ll be right back.
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8:29 PM ET
LEVIN: Welcome back, America. Brent Bozell, the Biden administration has done something I’ve never seen in my life. And as a chief of staff to an attorney general, it never would have crossed our minds. They’ve decided to criminalize public protest and input at school board meetings, to federalize public input and protest at school board meetings. It violates the First Amendment, and of course, the federal government has no nexus to this.
But we now know, thanks to a letter that was sent to the Inspector General of the DOJ, that the Biden administration, at the White House, conspired with the Attorney General’s Office to unleash federal law enforcement against parents and taxpayers who, quote-unquote “threaten or harass” school board members or teachers. And there’s going to be a domestic terrorism hotline that people can call, I guess, so the FBI can show up at your doorstep and ask you questions. What do you make of that?
BOZELL: I’m frightened. I’m frightened. Let’s look at what should be the consequences of this horrific story. Number one, every person involved who knew about this should either resign or be removed. That means the principal, that means all the administrative staff that knew about this, that means every single teacher who knew about this, that means the school board itself.
Second, I hope that parents sue the crap out of the school board for what happened, and I think they will.
Third, every Democrat who participated in this should be exposed. This is the Democratic Party at work. This was a Democratic school board.
And then finally, the media need to be denounced for the cover-up of this horrific story. But what is the actual consequence of this? It is stunning to me, Mark, that the parents are on trial for this, and the fact that the father is on trial, and that our federal government has sided with those people who are covering up this policy and our federal government is putting that poor dad on trial, is putting every parent who is horrified by this on trial.
You dare not speak out about this policy that resulted in the rape, the sodomizing, the forced fellatio of this poor darling, 14-year-old girl.
LEVIN: And then we have a Democrat running for Governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe, who says parents really have no say in what goes on in the classrooms. Can you imagine that? We pay for the classrooms, the teachers, we pay their salaries, we elect the school boards, and we have no say.
So the knuckleheads in charge of the school boards, the teachers unions, all these people are in charge of our children and we have no say. This is – you’re correct. This is the position of the Democratic Party. Terry McAuliffe is a quintessential Democrat, is he not?
BOZELL: Think about when George Allen ran for Governor with the famous “macaca” moment. There were 56 stories in The Washington Post about “macaca,” about the mistake that George Allen made. What is more important, saying “macaca” or supporting a school board that has this policy, saying that parents have no right to object to that kind of a policy. What’s more important?
And yet, where was The Washington Post on this? An online local news story that just ignores it and on we go. That’s a cover- up.
This should be – The Washington Post, the media, they should be going right to Terry McAuliffe and say how do you feel now? How do you feel now, Mr. McAuliffe, that you support it, and you continue, and you’ve doubled down on a policy that says parents have no right to participate in the decisions about their own children in school? Now, what do you say, Mr. McAuliffe?
LEVIN: I’ll tell you what they’re going to say, they’ll endorse him for governor when the time comes, as they always do, the Democrats. And what do you make of a line of Democrats going to campaign for McAuliffe given these facts, given this situation? Barack Obama, shouldn’t he be asked? Jill Biden, shouldn’t she be asked? Joe Biden, shouldn’t he be asked? Stacey Abrams, shouldn’t she be asked? Should they all be asked about this policy and what took place in this school district?
BOZELL: America, listen to the silence. That’s all I can say. Listen to the silence. Joe Biden will speak out about anything, any conservative did anywhere. Joe Biden, who has also supported these policies, where is the President of the United States on this story? The President should be speaking out.
Where is Kamala Harris? You know, she’s putting golf or something. Where is she? Where is the Attorney General of the United States? Where’s the investigation, Mark? Where’s the federal government saying, we’re going to investigate this? After all, it is a federal school system. Where are they on these things?
They’ve got to get involved. The federal government has a responsibility. The state government has a responsibility. The police have a responsibility. As far as I know, the only people who give a damn are the police.
LEVIN: Brent Bozell, thank you so much for all you do. The Media Research Center and its various entities. Your book, Stops Along the Way, coming out in December, is a terrific book. I encourage people to go to amazon.com, they can pre-buy it right now. The book is Stops Along the Way.
We’ll be right back.
